This smoking ban hoo-ha

Visitor Q · $25 whore Joined: 30 Apr 2004 Karma :

Good points of the ban...
The smoking sin bin is actually really sociable and you meet and talk to people a fuckload more then anywhere else. Ive pulled birds ive met in them a couple of times now.

Thats good points over...
Bad points...
Clubs and bars now smell of sweat, fart, vomit, cheap perfume and spilt mixed booze. Nice... Infact i had NEVER noticed someone farting in a pub or club before the ban, now its like death zones.

Having to drag yourself away into the rain, where the law says you cannot bring your drink. So you have to leave it somewhere inside where it invariably gets nicked. If i EVER catch a cunt knabbing my pint, im going to beat them to death with a shoe.

Queing for the pleasure of sitting outside in the colds another fantastic one clubs here have elected to do. Not got to try the fun of it back home in england, but i bet its savage.

Anyhew, as stinkwheel says, the benefits are pretty much bollocks. Only two reasons i quit is because the occasional bird coming up to me and sniffing me with a disgusted look on her face because ive just had a fag isnt as endearing as they bloody think. And because i object to dropping between 10-25 quid a week extra on burnt sticks.

Problem is, i LOVE smoking. And i can quit pretty easily when i have the motivation. But whenever i go abroad i always smoke. And pretty heavily. Usually because im on a budget and a pack of 20 for a quid is alot cheaper then buying a chocice everytime you get bored during the day, and because sitting on a beach with a cold beer and a fag just makes sense...
So there.

What i object to is this nonsense of second hand smoke being a serious health hazard. Most clubs didnt allow smoking at the bar anyway, and like i say it made it smell nicer paradoxically then without em. And almost all the second hand smoke causing cancer papers tend to reference the same paper that was debunked by most experts. And i really cant be arsed trawling through the penn and teller on it, but it was in there definitely.
And as a NON-SMOKER once put it, the next step will be banning the loud music. Loud music in clubs WILL fuck your hearing, and it stops people having conversations. If you dont want loud music you dont go to a club. The reason we have loud music is people enjoy it, just as they enjoy having a fag with their beer.
And the serious killer is having to walk past a bouncer everytime you want a fag when you're pilling (nicotine seriously helps the rush/coming up) which doesnt exactly help.

Sooner i can get out of britain the better.
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Silver · World Chat Champion Joined: 03 Oct 2004 Karma :

Bonny, whilst I agree about the loud music it's not really the same as smoking. How many no-smoking pub/clubs were there before the ban? I don't know of a single one.

sagiliam · Could Be A Chat Bot Joined: 26 Mar 2006 Karma :

What they should of done, in order to satisfy everyone (well the majority, because some you jusy cannot keep happy).
Is either introduce Smoking bars/pubs/clubs and non smoking bars/pubs/clubs.
OR introduce a smoking license, which if a pub/club chooses to can obtain a license to allow smoking indoors.
I bet your bottom dollar a large majority of the pubs/clubs would apply for this license because it means mucho business.

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JonB · Afraid of Mileage Joined: 03 Jun 2004 Karma :

Well luckily enough, all of my course mates don't smoke, not even socially, so kind of glad I quit smoking before uni cause I would have looked quite an outcast, a couple of my housemates smoke and i've just grown to detest them for it cause they smoke in the house and even when I smoked i'd never smoke in the house as the smell of stale smoke in the morning makes me wretch.
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